{"id":148464,"date":"2019-09-14T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=148464"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:58:49","slug":"thought-for-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/09\/14\/thought-for-the-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I love the language used in some spam emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I was offered a “Mind Bugling” opportunity. A mind bugle conjurer’s an image from 40’s or 50’s sci-fi b\/w film with some poor miscreant strapped to a chair with an elaborate horn facing downwards just above head height about to blown by a refugee mad scientist\/failed musician from a N’Orleans marching band attached to some electrodes and cables to mysterious indicators and meters and possibly wearing a lab coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this is a thing it is possible that some denizens of facebook have already been subjected to this procedure and that may be why some of them have such interesting notions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the language used in some spam emails. Today I was offered a “Mind Bugling” opportunity. A mind bugle conjurer’s an image from 40’s or 50’s sci-fi b\/w film with some poor miscreant strapped to a chair with an elaborate horn facing downwards just above head height about to blown by a refugee mad … Continue reading Thought for the day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-CCA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178337,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/25\/your-mind-opened-up-my-doors\/","url_meta":{"origin":148464,"position":0},"title":"Your Mind Opened Up My Doors","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes you have a revelation and you can't keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. 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